Over zealous security

R

Roger Schlemmer

Mac OS X v. 10.6.2
Office: mac 2008
Home & Student Edition
Version 12.2.3

Entourage has blocked some emails with this message:

³For your security Entourage will block submission of this form.²

The last email blocked was a form newsletter sent by a US senator.
Could he have attached some subliminal message to influence my opinions?
(That was satire)

What controls the security blocking action in Entourage?
What does it search for to determine which emails to block?
 
W

William Smith [MVP]

Roger said:
Entourage has blocked some emails with this message:

“For your security Entourage will block submission of this form.”

The last email blocked was a form newsletter sent by a US senator.
Could he have attached some subliminal message to influence my opinions?
(That was satire)

What controls the security blocking action in Entourage?
What does it search for to determine which emails to block?
Click to expand...

As a matter of course, Entourage blocks all submissions within messages
that contain a form. That means the message contains an HTML <form>
element, whether you see it or not.

Typically a form, like a form on a web page, asks you to enter
information and then click some sort of Submit button to send the
information back to the server.

The reason this is dangerous and why Entourage blocks it is that you
have no good way of knowing where that information is going if you
submit it through a mail message. You may receive a message from
"Paypal" explaining you have a problem with your account and this
message may include a handy "Enter your name and password here to log on
immediately" form. What you wouldn't know beforehand is whether or not
you've just sent your name and password to Paypal or to a scammer.

Hope this helps!

--

bill

Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
YouTalk <http://nine.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/youtalk>
Twitter: follow <http://twitter.com/meck>
 
D

Diane Ross

Entourage has blocked some emails
Click to expand...

The new security feature that blocks certain attachments requires users to
edit the plist as described in the following article: Customize Entourage
2008 attachment settings:

<http://tinyurl.com/ybm7vjn>

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
YouTalk <http://tinyurl.com/bzcrjy> <-- Entourage mailing list
Twitter: follow <http://twitter.com/entouragehelp>
 
U

uncle-jesi

Roger Schlemmer wrote on 12/15/2009 10:23 ET :
this format, some or all of this message may not be legible.


Mac OS X v. 10.6.2
Office: mac 2008
Home & Student Edition
Version 12.2.3

Entourage has blocked some emails with this message:

³For your security Entourage will block submission of this form.²

The last email blocked was a form newsletter sent by a US senator.
Could he have attached some subliminal message to influence my opinions?
(That was satire)

What controls the security blocking action in Entourage?
What does it search for to determine which emails to block?



<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Over zealous security</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FONT FACE="Courier, Courier New"><SPAN
STYLE='font-size:18pt'>Mac OS X v. 10.6.2<BR>
Office: mac 2008<BR>
Home &amp; Student Edition<BR>
Version 12.2.3<BR>
<BR>
Entourage has blocked some emails with this message:<BR>
<BR>
“For your security Entourage will block submission of this
form.”<BR>
<BR>
The last email blocked was a form newsletter sent by a US senator.<BR>
Could he have attached some subliminal message to influence my
opinions?<BR>
(That was satire)<BR>
<BR>
What controls the security blocking action in Entourage?<BR>
What does it search for to determine which emails to block?<BR>
</SPAN></FONT>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Click to expand...
paypal is ridiculous. just because i signed in from a different ip, they woul
not let me use the account. what a bunch of idiots working there.
 

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